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Jon - 30 Oct 2006 23:46 GMT

Hi there,
I have Windows XP Home Edition. I have recently changed my DVD region from
region 2 to watch an American DVD. I still have 1 change left, and yet when i
try and change the region back to region 2 it comes up with the message:

Unable to update region setting. Please make sure the drive contains region
2 media and you have administrative privilege.

I have tried several of my region 2 dvds and i am the only user and
administrator of the computer.
Any help would be much appreciated,
many thanks

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Juan Perez - 31 Oct 2006 12:54 GMT

Hi:

I found two leads in news of Google that you can check:

http://groups.google.ie/group/microsoft.public.win2000.general/browse_frm/thread
/4643f25ffedd4be7/f199d8b4b369e980?lnk=st&q=Unable+to+update+region+setting&rnum
=1#f199d8b4b369e980

http://groups.google.ie/group/microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player/browse_frm/th
read/e6b68af2014ceef9/ba41d862216649cd?lnk=st&q=Unable+to+update+region+setting&
rnum=2#ba41d862216649cd

Apparently you still have one chance to go back to region 2. I suggest you
to first use a problem to see how many changes you made and how many left.
May be yopu can try:

http://www.remoteselector.com/driveinfo.htm
http://www.visualdomain.net/

From there, if you are unable to change the region, instead of change the
firmware, becuase of legal issues etc, etc., the risk of trash you DVD
Drive, I reconmmend to use a programs to avoid the detection of the region,
told in the news from above.

I hope it helps.

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Un saludo
Juan Perez

> Hi there,
> I have Windows XP Home Edition. I have recently changed my DVD region from
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> Any help would be much appreciated,
> many thanks

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MAP - 01 Nov 2006 00:32 GMT

> Hi there,
> I have Windows XP Home Edition. I have recently changed my DVD region
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> Any help would be much appreciated,
> many thanks

This works as advertised,
http://www.dvdidle.com/dvd-region-free.htm

--
Mike Pawlak

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